reviews, releases and recommendations of LGBT media
For May’s book of the month, we picked one we’re both excited for. I mean, who wouldn’t be highly anticipating a book about a boy, the genie who grants him three wishes, and a romp around the world in search of his boyfriend? You know I’m right.
So have a look at the book below and don’t forget to follow Naz on twitter (and, obviously, preorder)!
Hope everyone had a good April, a month which I keep referring to as either March or May. As you can tell, Anna got back to watching more than me (& I feel I should mention they did read more than one book, it’s just the others were straight, in an unusual turn of events). But anyway, here’s what we read, watched and listened to!
Lesbians rejoice because, with purely coincidental and yet purely perfect timing, we have possibly the most exciting post we could have uploaded on Lesbian Visibility Day! Yes, that’s right, a chat with the author of the upcoming The Lesbiana’s Guide to Catholic School! As massive proponents of, you know, using the word lesbian in YA literature, this book is high on our anticipated reads list. So it’s with great pleasure that we can post today’s interview with Sonora Reyes.
And, before you read, don’t forget to follow them on twitter!
With no clue what new rec list to possibly do, I turned back to an old(er) one to refresh. I last did a high fantasy rec list back in March 2021, and before that, April 2019, both of them before a number of books I now consider favourites were even released. So, what better time to do an update than now? And here we are, with 10 high fantasy recs for your delectation and delight!
And hey, a lot of those titles are available on Scribd, so if you want to check out that service but don’t have an account yet, use my invite code to get 2 months for free! (This also gives me one free month.)
It’s been three years since Charlotte has done the original post, and we decided that’s long enough for me to update her recs a little bit. Actually, it is always interesting to see which books for any given topic she recommends vs. me. There’s a lot of overlap, but our tastes aren’t identical.
Anyway, if you’re craving some gay magic? Enjoy!
And hey, a lot of those titles are available on Scribd, so if you want to check out that service but don’t have an account yet, use my invite code to get 2 months for free! (This also gives me one free month.)
Contemporary and/or literary fiction is, I’ll admit, a genre I struggle with. On the whole, I find it bores me so finding books within it that I enjoy is… occasionally a futile-seeming exercise. However. I thought I’d challenge myself for you today and put together a rec list of the genre so, here we are! If you’re as little enamoured by this genre as I am, let me suggest these few exceptions to maybe change your mind.
Listen, okay, lets be real. Sometimes you just have like 15 minutes to spare. Or sometimes 15 minutes is all that your attention span affords you. But don’t worry! Even with that limited time, you can watch amazing LGBT movies!
Who’s ready for another interview? I know I am! Today’s is the chat we had with Laury Egan, a little while back, but nice and fresh for you to read now. Sit yourself down with a cuppa and have a scroll!
And don’t forget to follow her on twitter!
After reading and loving The Sky Blues in 2021, Blaine for the Win was one of our most anticipated reads of 2022, and it definitely didn’t disappoint. Trust us when we say you don’t want to miss out on it. But if you need a few more reasons than that, check out our review below!
And don’t forget, you can follow Robbie on twitter.
High school junior Blaine Bowers has it all—the perfect boyfriend, a pretty sweet gig as a muralist for local Windy City businesses, a loving family, and awesome, talented friends. And he is absolutely, 100% positive that aforementioned perfect boyfriend—​senior student council president and Mr. Popular of Wicker West High School, Joey—is going to invite Blaine to spend spring break with his family in beautiful, sunny Cabo San Lucas.
Except Joey breaks up with him instead. In public. On their one-year anniversary.
Because, according to Joey, Blaine is too goofy, too flighty, too…unserious. And if Joey wants to go far in life, he needs to start dating more serious guys. Guys like Zach Chesterton.
Determined to prove that Blaine can be what Joey wants, Blaine decides to enter the running to become his successor (and beat out Joey’s new boyfriend, Zach) as senior student council president.
But is he willing to sacrifice everything he loves about himself to do it?
Robbie Couch
Rep: gay mc, Vietnamese American bi li, Black sapphic character, Latina sapphic character, gay side characters
Release: 12th April 2022
The music selection this month is very eclectic, if I do say so myself. And I think we all could use some reprieve that only discovering new songs can provide. So here are ten March LGBT songs that I wanted to spotlight, and over 100 more in the playlist linked at the end of the post.
That’s still not enough music for you? Try all my previous monthly posts right here!
She Gets the Girl is finally out in the world! We have been waiting for long enough! I think we all could use a little bit of a sapphic romcom right about now, am I right?
But if you’re still waiting for your preorder copy to come in, or if you’re simply still wondering how excited you should be about this book, we’re here to help you out! Below you can read the first chapter of She Gets the Girl and curb your curiosity!
And, of course, you can follow both Alyson and Rachael on twitter!
Are you a fan of middle grade books? Are you a fan of middle grade mystery books? Well then, today we have the book for you! It’s out in a month and a half and, honestly, it should be shooting to the tops of your TBRs. So, have a read about it, and let us know how excited you are!
And as always, you can, of course, also follow Janet on instagram.
I don’t know about you, but March feels like it flew by. It was February just a few days ago, I swear! But here we are, in April already. And with a wrap up post to boot.
Before we start, though, in June we’re looking to open up the blog to you guys! We’ve got 10 guest post slots open to anyone, so, if you have a post you’re burning to write, pitch us your ideas! More information about it (& the sign up form) can be found here.
2022 keeps on giving when it comes to LGBT romance books, and one of them that we’re super excited about is, of course, Love, Hate & Clickbait! It’s a few more weeks before we can all bask in the glory of the gay fake dating, so in the meantime, to peak your interest even more, here’s a little chat with the author.
And don’t forget to follow Liz on twitter!
Finally, it’s almost time for one of our most anticipated books of the year to be out in the world! The lesbian witchy retelling of The Great Gatsby that exceeds every expectation anyone had about it! Adult fantasy keeps gifting us in the most surprising of ways.
You could still preorder a copy of Wild and Wicked Things, and in the meantime don’t forget to follow Fran on twitter, if you’re not already!
In the aftermath of World War I, a naive woman is swept into a glittering world filled with dark magic, romance, and murder in this lush and decadent debut.
On Crow Island, people whisper, real magic lurks just below the surface.
Neither real magic nor faux magic interests Annie Mason. Not after it stole her future. She’s only on the island to settle her late father’s estate and, hopefully, reconnect with her long-absent best friend, Beatrice, who fled their dreary lives for a more glamorous one.
Yet Crow Island is brimming with temptation, and the biggest one may be her enigmatic new neighbor.
Mysterious and alluring, Emmeline Delacroix is a figure shadowed by rumors of witchcraft. And when Annie witnesses a confrontation between Bea and Emmeline at one of the island’s extravagant parties, she is drawn into a glittering, haunted world. A world where the boundaries of wickedness are tested, and the cost of illicit magic might be death.
Francesca May
Rep: lesbian mc, nonbinary lesbian mc, bi side character
CWs: domestic violence, child abuse, magic requiring self harm, blood
Release: 29th March 2022
